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At a moment of crisis over our national identity, journalist Dan Rather reflects on what it means to be an American. He reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded. Looking at the freedoms that define us, from the vote to the press; the values that have transformed us, from empathy to inclusion to service; the institutions that sustain us, such as public education; and the traits that helped form our young country, such as...
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453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Running water. Electricity. Antibiotics. Dentistry. Air conditioning. Democracy. The rule of law. Such things are not only remarkably new inventions in human history, they are all alien to humanity's natural habitat. Here is what is natural: poverty, hunger, violence, tribal hatred, and an early death. If the Garden of Eden existed, it was a slum. Only once in the last 250,000 years did humans lift themselves out of their natural environment of poverty....
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Bill McKibben -- award-winning author, activist, educator -- is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing -- knowing -- that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable...
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The mainstream media and ultra-liberal Democrats can't understand why white voters, especially white men, are so angry. Wayne Allyn Root is an angry white male, and he knows why. This is his story, his testimony, and a look at what's happening to an entire group of good people: law-abiding, tax-paying, hard-working, middle-class people. They're being targeted, silenced, intimidated, persecuted virtually wiped off the planet in order to make guilty,...
10) What unites us
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281 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Brought to life in stunning color by artist Tim Foley, What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel takes apart the building blocks of this country, from the freedoms that define us, to the values that have transformed us, to the institutions that sustain us. Rather's vast experience and his unique perspective as one of America's most renowned newscasters shed light on who we were and who we are today, allowing us to see a possible future, where we are one...
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Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening of the Cold War's clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism has swept the world stage. In Blood and Belonging, Ignatieff makes a thorough examination of why blood ties-in places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Kurdistan,...
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Décembre 2013: lors d'une cérémonie qui ressemblait à des funérailles nationales, devant une télé d'État béatement subjuguée par tant de pouvoir, des grands de ce monde ont chanté à l'unisson les louanges de Paul Desmarais: un grand homme d'affaires qui aurait donné tant au Québec nous a quitté.
Et si on inversait la question: que doivent Paul Desmarais et son empire au Québec ?
Tout! répond Robin Philpot.
Dans cet essai, plus que...
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Este libro es un alto en el camino; una pausa para la necesaria reflexión en un mundo que cambia sin parar, sin tregua ni oportunidad para detenernos a mirar con atención lo que sucede a nuestro alrededor. Lo hace a partir de uno de los grandes temas de nuestro tiempo: el nacionalismo. La llegada de Donald Trump a la presidencia norteamericana, los nuevos ataques terroristas, el auge de movimientos separatistas, los conflictos migratorios e, incluso,...
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John first heard the term political correctness in 1975. When he asked his friend, what is that? After the explanation, John replied, "That is the biggest conversation killer I have ever heard." John felt it was wrong but had no wherewithal to challenge it. For thirty-five years, it bothered him. It wasn't until twenty-eleven that, looking at a possible second term for Obama, he finally coined the phrase "Constitutional correctness trumps political...
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Imagine a time in the future when science has developed the means to allow the political socioeconomic playing field to level itself, giving everyone adequate food, shelter, clothing, health care, and sufficient education, and outlawing warfare. It may not happen tomorrow, but the age of abundance may be waiting in the future, where man has evolved to become gnostic human beings to fully understand what it means to be human in knowledge, righteousness,...
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esta obra, resultado de la disertación doctoral del autor y dirigida a la comunidad académica interesada en el funcionamiento de las democracias contemporáneas, tiene como objetivo analizar el rol de representación política de los legisladores en dos sistemas federales latinoamericanos: brasil y méxico. Para ello, propone un modelo analítico que describe la naturaleza de la representación y explora, a través de una sólida construcción teórica,...
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The Memo is the riveting story of how Rich Higgins' twenty year career inside the Deep State enabled him to discern - well before anyone else - the Deep State's efforts to stop and ultimately remove the President from office. No one was more bold - or more frighteningly accurate - in anticipating the ferocity of the Deep State's assault on the Constitution and President Trump.
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Analizar el fenómeno del populismo en Argentina implica, no solo un análisis político sino también investigar las condiciones económicas sobre las que se sostiene. Pero, sobre todo, implica una confrontación con la corriente histórica conocida como "revisionismo".
Esta corriente, que ha hegemonizado el relato histórico y su interpretación, ha oscurecido y distorsionado toda la historia argentina desde Rivadavia hasta nuestros días. La sucesión...
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I finally done it. For the longest time, I have felt compelled to share what I have experienced. Some of the experience were along the lines of political. Some of this experience were religious.
We are only here for only so long. When we find what is important, when we have seen, and we do know, we are obligated to profess. I finally done it; here it is.
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Longtemps associé à un phénomène en marge de la politique européenne ou à l'instabilité de régimes présidentiels de l'Amérique latine, le populisme est maintenant indissociable de l'actualité politique: le Brexit, l'élection de Donald Trump à la présidence américaine en 2016, celle de Bolsonaro au Brésil en 2018 ou d'Orban en Hongrie en 2014 et 2018, en sont des exemples. Même si les chercheurs ne s'entendent pas sur l'articulation...
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